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Week 1 Beld

This is Week 1 journal entry from Alex Beld, who is a student reporter for the War: Through Their Eyes, Vol. 3, Warriors & Students multimedia project.

Alex Beld and Nick Brewer meeting for the first time at the Veteran's Resource Center

Upon
receiving the name of the veteran I was supposed to interview I was
worried about how it would go. Nick Brewer had not yet responded to an
email that asked him the basic information about himself. I thought he
may have no longer been interested in doing the story. When I first
emailed Nick for War: Through Their Eyes I became even more worried
after three days of Nick not responding. I sent a second email as Nick
was emailing me back from the first one. We decided to meet at 11:45
a.m. on Friday, Feb, 8 in the Veterans Resource Center. Before meeting
him I was nervous that he wouldn’t want to talk very much. I got to the
center 20 minutes early and was sitting waiting for Nick to get there
until someone behind the desk asked what I was waiting for. I told him I
was waiting for Nick and it turned out the guy behind the desk was
Nick. We talked for about an hour and during that time I realized that
Nick was not uninterested. He had just forgotten to email me back right
away. He turned out to be incredibly friendly and willing to talk. We
found out that we both grew up in Madison, Wis, and have a fair amount in common. We talked for just over an hour until Nick had to go back to work.